Artist: Atmosphere Album: When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold Song: Like the Rest of Us Typed by: framek@mail.ru See I've been here for thirty some years Lookin' at myself in the same dirty mirror So it ain't like I don't comprehend Open that bottle and swallow that friend No crime to take a little too much Got time to drink away a few months Got a little cocaine habit But he says he only does it If somebody else has it Go do that shit do that shit lady She went vegetarian for the baby Third trimester see the kid kick She showed me outside When she gave me a cigarette Shit there's no way to measure it But not every pony grows up to be a pegasus You gotta let people be hypocrites Count your blessings and mind your businesses Stuck with yourself like the rest of us Dirt gets done and then we back to dust Runnin' in place sun in my face Let me fly away heaven won't wait Heaven won't wait let me fly away Getting no way every day Just tryin' to keep my mind on work It's like That's the only way to love this life on earth It's like Everyone takes number one in the race Cause we all keep running in place Here kitty kitty can't train that fox Must be drinkin' that name brand scotch All of us cut from the same damn cloth Some of us never cut the price tags off She ended up on a pole With her heels pointin' At a jesus she used to know Stripped her down to her naked body We made her drown in a lake full of patriarchy And in between the pride and the misery With an infinite supply of sympathy Are these invisible walls that hold me Like this goldfish bowl is the whole sea see? Stuck with yourself like the rest of us Dirt gets done and then we back to dust Runnin' in place sun in my face Let me fly away heaven won't wait Heaven won't wait let me fly away Getting no way every day Artist: Atmosphere Album: When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold Song: Me Typed by: framek@mail.ru Yeah the child in the mirror was homely So he learned early on how to switch in to low key Little person observant and accurate Grew the skills to argue And the passion to back it with Kick over the blocks just to rebuild em Mom and pop used to pop sound familiar? Daddy had to leave but momma kept hurtin' So he stepped up to help be an anchor and a burden And right around the same time He started noticin' girls But they wouldn't pay him any mind And if they ever did he got nervous You shoulda seen him practice on his hand For his first kiss And even though he was too young to hunt and gather Hungry puppy had to learn how to front and swagger It didn't matter it was all self esteem At sixteen you only needed one on your team And mom and dad was never gettin' back together So he was on some baby we gon' make it last forever Basically married right outta high school Five years of gettin' high and fightin' at a drive thru When he hit twenty-one they made a son But on his twenty-second birthday The relationship was done Now he's got a best friend instead of a wife But he feels like he stole the best years of her life After that it was one codependent to the next A lotta love a lotta hate and a little bit of great sex Self learning in between the self loathing Strangled in a cycle can't feel yourself choking Some of them would overlap Some of them would double back None of em deserved to be exposed To all the trouble that he posed Strike one? not even out of fear He don't even do rough sex You bite him and he's outta here Make no mistake he puts the man in manipulate And he's attracted to the women that reciprocate Y'all can kick karma til it's getting late Until momma's little drama Is the topic of the big debate And nowadays the confidence is off the page Cause women are attracted To that clown on the stage He's only in town for a handful of hours But rapunzel wanna come down And dance in the flowers Wanna make a smile wanna make a laugh Wanna make up for the mistakes in the past Wanna act like he doesn't know better If payback's a bitch he'll be in debt forever Insecure impatient Temporary gratification self-validation That's what it's made of its all true And it's the only reason That he's even talkin' to you Who? You can try to fix my broken wings You can know all the words to the songs I sing But you don't need to know what's wrong with me Unless you think you gonna come home with me